Why of all of the states and peoples of Asia were the Chinese and Japanese able to both fend off the expansion-minded
European intruders and consolidate their centralized
political systems and rise to even higher levels of economic
productivity and cultural development?

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Why were the Chinese and Japanese able to fend off the expansion-minded European intruders and consolidate their empires compared to the other states and peoples of Asia? Japan was a warrior-dominated state, and under leaders during the Tokugawa, was militarily forceful.

Explanation:

your answer is

to dominate europe

and i know for a fact it can't be the others

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939